Word: caving
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Scranton, Pennsylvania, is a city built upon the coal industry. This is perfectly literal, since many of the mines run under the city and buildings not infrequently cave in as a result of dangerous tunneling. Now it has been discovered by mining engineers employed by the city that the Richter Coal Company has been unlawfully mining beneath Nay Aug Park, thus imperilling the lives of hundreds of pleasure seeking citizens. But it appears that the coal digging was not illegal because it endangered people's lives; it was illegal because the coal belongs to the Scranton Coal Company, which...
...their portals, such as "Gualdophi" and "Karelos", which are untranslatable, but seem to have been proper names. "Gualdophi", strangely enough, was also the name of an exclusive inn in the nearby city of Machu Picchu. One of the more unusual places of this kind was a sort of underground cave, below a curious structure that seems to have been a temple to the God of wine...
...This cave had been closely blocked during the course of the ages, and when we entered we heard reverberating in it the echoes of strange Inca sounds that were the names of the dishes served there. It is a reasonable assumption that the custom was for each patron to shout aloud the name of his desired dish, and it would be hurled deftly out at him from an auxiliary cave in the rear. One peculiarity common to many of these food-shops was their small size; so small were most of them that there could scarcely have been room...
Rose, Kerr, and Lucas scored the first three runs in the third inning by successive singles, the latter two being brought in by Norris' double. The fourth tally cave in the seventh when Bullard scored after hitting a long three-bagger...
...program tonight will be as follows: "Up the Street" Morse "Overture, 'Fingal's Cave'" Mendelssohn "Valse Triste" Sibelius "Ballet Suite" Gluck "March of the Little Lead Soldiers" Pierne "Serenade" Drigo "Bungarian March' Berlioz "Our Director" Bigelow